New Report Finds Banks Betting on Climate Change
For release, 6am CET/12am EST June 14, 2016 CONTACT: Virali Modi-Parekh, Rainforest Action Network: +1 510 747 8476, virali@ran.org Yann Louvel, BankTrack: +33 688 907 868, yann@banktrack.org New…
Keystone XL pipeline fight shows power of US climate movement
OpEd on KXL “After a seven year fight, President Obama finally rejected the northern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. But it is important to remember how recently the…
Environmental Activists Prepare for Next Fight After Keystone Victory
KXL & KING “It’s good, and at the same time it cannot be the extent of Obama’s work on climate,” said Lindsey Allen, Rainforest Action Network executive director, of Obama’s…
RAN Statement on Rejection of Keystone XL Pipeline
Rainforest Action Network Executive Director Lindsey Allen issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL Pipeline: “The president’s decision today is the result of…
RAN Statement on Obama Administration Denial of Keystone XL Permit Application Suspension Request
RAN Executive Director Lindsey Allen said: “It is a hopeful sign that Obama has rejected TransCanada’s desperate request to buy more time, but after seven years of drama, enough is…
Keystone XL: RAN Responds to Latest Move by TransCanada Corp.
San Francisco, CA – TransCanada Corp., the company behind the controversial cross-border Keystone XL pipeline, has asked the Obama Administration to indefinitely suspend its application for the project and pause its…
Newsweek: Sweet U.S. Government Land Deals Charge Up Energy Companies: Report
“Researchers at the San Francisco-based environmental nonprofit (Rainforest Action Network (RAN)) combed through U.S. Bureau of Land Management lease records and found some of the world’s largest conglomerates—Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP…
Morgan Stanley Pressured to Drop Coal Financing
Embargoed for: September 22, 2015Contact: Blair FitzGibbon, 202-503-6141 Morgan Stanley Pressured to Drop Coal Financing Rainforest Action Network Announces Campaign as Next Major Bank Targeted Since Bank of America Coal…
Taking Back Our Power
Electric utilities aren’t moving as fast as we need them to in phasing out fossil fuel use. Even when almost nine out of ten Americans say that renewable energy is…
BBC: Adani’s Australian coal prospects in doubt
“Dredging for the new port and increased shipping so close to the already vulnerable reef concerned scientists, environmentalists and the United Nations. Pressure from those sources may have been what…